Abstract: The constitution of the Italian Republic in 1947 accorded, for the first time, a key role to the presidents of the Chambers, in the context of a perfect bicameral parliamentary system in terms of the powers attributed to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. For the president of the Assembly all’italiana, the markers of continuity with a tradition jealously guarded by the professional bureaucracy won out over the Italian political system’s uncertain leanings towards change.
